James Van Allen Quotes

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • World
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• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
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• I'm very interested in science.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Science
  • Very
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• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
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• A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'

  

  Paris Jackson
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• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• Compassion is not a popular virtue.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
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  • Earth

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
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• I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  

  Vernor Vinge
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• Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
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• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
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• I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
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  • May

• In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
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• I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
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• I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!

  

  Karan Johar
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  • Amazing
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• For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.

  

  Paz de la Huerta
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  • Long
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• I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

  

  Alistair Cooke
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• I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

  

  James Van Allen
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